mod rewrite help

tutorial name in dynamic url

[celox]

Hola,

I've been fooling around with SEF URLs for a few months now and I get the basics now, but now I want to take my SEF URLs to the next level.

I want my tutorial names in my rewritten URLs with a "-" for the spacings, example:

Old SEF URL:
[justanexample.cd...]

New SEF URL:
[justanexample.cd...]

Hopefully someone can help me out with this since I'm clueless on this subject!

Thanks in advance,

Celox

[jdMorgan]

You'll need to use a RewriteMap defined in httpd.conf to detect these new URLs, and call a script which will access your database and translate the "product description" form of the requested URL into the "id-30" form of the URL needed to call your main script.

mod_rewrite by itself can't help; It can add, remove, or re-arrange the characters in a URL, but it has no internal capability as a relational database. So you use a RewriteMap to invoke a script to do the translation.

Or you can modify your main script to do the same thing.

Jim

[edited by: jdMorgan at 1:59 am (utc) on Sep. 27, 2006]

[celox]

Thanks, I'll go and read some stuff about this. Just to get me going can you post an example on how to do it in the main script? Or is it to long a code to make an example of.

Celox

[jdMorgan]

The solution depends completely on your current set-up, so posting an example isn't possible. In addition, this is a "project," not something that you'll get a "quick answer" to.

Jim

[celox]

Well I didn't thought it would be this big, I'll dig into this, thanks.

Celox